mensajeros que se llamaban tequipan titlanti, venían a dar las nuevas al señor de aquellos que habían captivado a sus enemigos y de la victoria que habían habido los de su parte. En llegando a las casas reales, entraban a hablar al señor, y saludando le decían: "Señor nuestro, vive muchos años. Sabe que el dios de la guerra, Huitzilopuchtli, nos ha favorecido, y que con su ayuda vuestro exército ha vencido a sus contrarios, y tomaron la provincia sobre que iban. Vencieron los tenochcas y los de Tlatilulco, y los de Tacupan, y los tezcocanos, y los otomíes, y los matlatzincas, y los de las chinampas, y los de la tierra seca." El señor respondía, diciéndoles: "Seáis muy bien venidos. Huélgome de oír estas nuevas. Sentaos y esperad, porque me quiero certificar más dellas." Y ansí los mandaba guardar. Y si hallaba que aquellas nuevas eran mentirosas, hacíalos matar.
\nDespués de haber conquistado la provincia contra quien iba, lo
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\nAfter having conquered the province
\nThe chinampa region comprises the towns of the southern shores of Lake Tetzcoco, which cultivated food in chinampas, or floating gardens, right within the perimeter of the lake. Lines below, Sahagún explains that the dry lands are near these towns; these were obviously on higher ground.↩
in tequjtque tlapaliuj, intoca tequjpan titlanti in qujoalnonotztiuetzi motecuçuma:
\nauh in oacico tequjpan titlanti, njman ic hiciuhca calactiuetzi ipan in motecuçuma qujlhuja. Totecujoe notelpotzine, ma ximotlacotili, ma ximotequjtili, ca oicnopiltic, onmaceoaltic, in tetzaujtl in ujtzilobuchtli, ca otepan qujtopeuh in quauhtenamjtl, in ocelotenamjtl, ca oia in altepetl: in vmpa tlatlamatitiaque in mexica tenochca, in mexica tlatilulca, in tepanecatl, in aculhoa, in otomjtl, in matlatzincatl, iie ixqujch tlalhoacpanecatl in chinampanecatl.
\nAuh qujmjlhujaia in moteçuma, oanqujçiauhque, oanqujhijoujque in oçeloqujchtle: ximotlalican aço çan annechiztlacahuja, ma oc njcchia in jneltica tlatolli:
\nauh njman qujmoncaltzaqua intlacamo melaoac tlatolli oqujcaqujtique moteçuma qujntlatlatia qujnpopoloa.
\nAuh in
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"047dd754-c23d-4f33-a99e-9309f5276b07","choice":{"en":["Nahuatl-to-English by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl-al-inglés por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]},"type":"translation","type_label":{"en":["nahuatl translation"],"es":["traducción al náhuatl"]},"column":"nahuatl","language":{"en":["English"],"es":["Inglés"]},"language_code":"eng","subtitle":"(Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982)","markdown":"couriers, of marriageable age, quickly went forth, called victory messengers, who speedily went to inform Moctezuma.\n\nAnd when the victory messengers had come to arrive, then they quickly entered into the presence of Moctezuma and said to him: “O our lord, O my youth, pay thy debt and thy service [to the god]; for the omen of evil, Uitzilopochtli, hath shown favor and been gracious. For they have pierced the rampart of men dexterous in arms of the city against which they have gone. Into it have marched[^4] the Mexicans of Tenochtitlan, the Mexicans of Tlatilulco, the Tepaneca, the Acolhua, the Otomí, the Matlatzinca, and finally all the people of the uplands and those of the swamp lands.”[^5]\n\nAnd Moctezuma said to them: “You have tired yourselves; you have suffered affliction, O men dexterous in war. Rest yourselves. [But] perhaps you only fool me. Let me still behold the truth of your account.”\n\nAnd then he confined them. If the report which they had made were not true, Moctezuma jailed them and did away with them\n\nAnd \n\n\n\n\n[^4]: *Tlatlamatitiaque:* Siméon, *op.cit.—tlatlamantitiui*\n\n\n[^5]: *Chinampanecatl:* Sahagún’s comment on fol. 53 of Book X of the *Florentine Codex* is descriptive: *”y los de la tierra seca, que son las cercanias de las chinanpas.”*","html":"couriers, of marriageable age, quickly went forth, called victory messengers, who speedily went to inform Moctezuma.
\nAnd when the victory messengers had come to arrive, then they quickly entered into the presence of Moctezuma and said to him: “O our lord, O my youth, pay thy debt and thy service [to the god]; for the omen of evil, Uitzilopochtli, hath shown favor and been gracious. For they have pierced the rampart of men dexterous in arms of the city against which they have gone. Into it have marched1 the Mexicans of Tenochtitlan, the Mexicans of Tlatilulco, the Tepaneca, the Acolhua, the Otomí, the Matlatzinca, and finally all the people of the uplands and those of the swamp lands.”2
\nAnd Moctezuma said to them: “You have tired yourselves; you have suffered affliction, O men dexterous in war. Rest yourselves. [But] perhaps you only fool me. Let me still behold the truth of your account.”
\nAnd then he confined them. If the report which they had made were not true, Moctezuma jailed them and did away with them
\nAnd
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